#prevkrossbones

I really don't know what I'll name this character yet but I'm heavily considering just calling them krossy like I am since I not only suck at choosing names but I'm also making them for my Brook selfship and I could totally make the ship name Krossbones

ik there was a whole thing in Alabasta about devil fruits with flying powers being super rare and how there's only 5 that have ever been discovered so I'm leaning on the "ever been discovered" part of that really heavily so don't execute me COUGH.

Anywayys originally I was going to just give him a Rainbow Lorikeet motif as a reference to part of his backstory (backstory that's also a reference to me bc ofc it is) but at some point that just turned into me giving him a Devil fruit, or more specifically the Bird-Bird Fruit, Model: Lorikeet (in Japanese I believe it would be written as トリトリの実 モデル“ゴシキセイガイインコ” But please do correct me if I'm wrong, my Japanese is EXTREMELY rusty)

He's transmasc like me but unlike me actually has top surgery (living the dream)

I don't want to get too into backstory stuff yet because it's still being written and can get a bit personal at points but for a very basic overview of his devil fruit backstory

He was raised in either the east or south blue (I haven't quite decided, east is definitely easier to write because we have more information on it but it also doesn't feel as interesting to me) by an elderly parental figure that was not blood related to him (I'm basing this caretaker off a real person from my childhood) not sure what their gender will be yet but I'm leaning more towards them being a woman for some reason despite the real person they're based on being a man.

This caretaker is a retired pirate from the Grandline and the original user of the Bird-Bird Fruit, Model: Lorikeet though my character doesn't know about his parental figure's history as a pirate or their devil fruit ability, having never seen them use it.

They're getting up there in years and one night simply die in their sleep. It's sudden but painless, from natural causes. But their (basically adopted child) doesn't find them until later, that morning he had decided to surprise his caretaker with breakfast, going out the front to pick berries he stumbles upon a strange fruit on one of the trees, placing it in the basket with the rest of the berries and heading inside. He cuts a small piece off the fruit and gives it a try only to immediately discard it (it tastes absolutely disgusting) continuing to prepare breakfast before he catches a look at his reflection in the mirror and panics, having very little control over his new zoan abilities. (and not even knowing what they are in the first place) he stops what he's doing and rushes to his caretakers room for help, Finding them hours after they had already passed.